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• Providing personnel, material and equipment resource definitions
  • Shall the MES provide definitions of materials, equipment and personnel?
  • How are they named?
  • Are unique notations available?
  • For which products (mapping)?
  • Which resource parameters have to be defined?
  • Who maintains these resource definitions?
  • In which system are they maintained?
  • Are interfaces necessary?
  • How ist he transfer to be carried out?

• Providing information on resource capability (committed, available, or unattainable)
  • Shall the MES provide information on availability of resources (committed, available, or unattainable)?
  • Who shall receive the information?
  • What is the update cycle of such information?

• Managing stock sizes and using other means to control the amount of inventory
  • Shall the MES manage and control stock sizes?
  • Which systems contain or need information on stock sizes?
  • Is a central system available?
  • Which information for a warehouse / bin location shall be managed?
  • How is the data management distributed between ERP and MES?

• Ensuring that requests for acquisition of resources to meet future capabilities are initiated
  • Shall the MES ensure that requirements on resource supply to ensure future demands are initiated?
  • How and in which system are demands generated?
  • Is the process defined?

• Ensuring that equipment is available for the assigned tasks
  • Where shall be stored which devices are suitable for which tasks?
  • Based on which criteria?

• Providing information on the location of resources and assignment of resources to areas
  • Are the logistic transportation processes automated?
  • Shall the MES manage or provide information for other systems on location of resources and their assignment to working areas?

• Collecting information on the current state of personnel, equipment and material resources
  • Shall the MES manage the current status of resources?
  • Which status information shall be managed?
  • What shall the status information be used for?
  • Which state of status information shall be used?
  • Shall the MES visualize the current state of resources?

• Maintaining personnel qualification test information
  • Shall the MES manage information on staff qualification?
  • What shall the qualification information be used for?

• Maintaining equipment capability test information
  • Shall the MES manage information on equipment capability (possible applications and technical limitations)?
  • Shall the MES manage information and/or results on inspections regulated by law?
  • What shall the capability information be used for?

• Managing reservations for future use of resources
  • Shall the MES manage reservations for future use of resources
  • Shall the resource management be part of rough-cut planning or detailed scheduling?